Will this rule still work if ether1/wlan1 are in a bridge with WDS?  I
would think the traffic would hit the bridge1 interface, wouldn't it?

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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Butch Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 08:13 -0500, Josh Luthman wrote:
>> Would that permit the customer to still have a dhcp client behind it?
>> In my case, the customer would have a wlan1/ether1 wds bridge.
>
> If we use the in-interface=ether1 in the rule, we are limiting DHCPOFFER
> coming from a DHCP server that exists on ether1.  So it should not
> interfere with a server on the WAN side (wlan1).  This rule will ONLY
> limit the DHCPOFFER packet, which is always src-port=67 and dst-port=68.
> This is detailed here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol#Technical_details
>
> DHCP-client requests are src-port=68 and dst-port=67, server responses
> are the opposite.
>
>> > /interface bridge filter
>> > add action=drop chain=forward disabled=no \
>> >    dst-port=68 in-interface=ether1 \
>> >    ip-protocol=udp mac-protocol=ip src-port=67
>> >
>
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